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The Custer Battlefield Highway (CBH) triangular-shaped emblem can be seen here on the pole facing Lincoln Way at the northwest corner of the new Highway Commission building in 1926. The Highway Commission first occupied the building in 1924. The Custer Battlefield Highway was one of four marked routes passing through Ames. (The other three were the Lincoln, the Jefferson, and the Wilson Highways.) The CBH, registerd through Iowa in 1919, ran from Des Moines, north through Ames, west into Boone County, north through Webster City, Fort Dodge, Storm Lake, and on through Sioux Falls and Rapid City in South Dakota, the Custer Battlefield in Montana, terminating in the Glacier National Park. Photo, courtesy of the Iowa Department of Transportation.